The development project at the Oakland Army Base is inching forward, though not without bulldozing through the wishes of some of the facility’s longest tenured residents.

At recent meetings of the Council’s economic development committee, several tenant companies have expressed frustration with the process of being evicted or moved to the Port of Oakland-controlled portion of the base by a May 31 deadline.

At the Jan. 15 committee meeting, Dexter Vizinau, a spokesman for army base tenant Pacific Coast Container Inc., told the Councilmembers that the hundreds of jobs that businesses at the base provided Oakland were in jeopardy because of the way their eviction was being handled.

“This would be an opportunity for someone else to pick those jobs up,” Vizinau said, suggesting that many of these jobs could leave Oakland. “The business that comes through this port, the local people will miss out.”